Ivan Jirous

Czech poet and artistic director of the dissident band the Plastic People of the UniversePerhaps the most important encounter in the stormy life of Ivan Jirous, the prolific poet, essayist and leader of the Czech cultural opposition, who managed the psychedelic rock band the Plastic People of the Universe, was a conspiratorial meeting with the future Czech president Václav Havel. It happened in March 1976, eight years after the hopes inspired by the Prague Spring had been ground to dust by the ...

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